$5.5 Million to be transferred to World Wide Work from Assembly Hall fund

Might this be indicative of something else in the works? A reduction in the number and/or length of circuit assemblies? If they are still having 2 two-day ones per year, they might be going to only one. If they are still two-day affairs, perhaps they are going to only one-day assemblies. Either way, it would open up time slots for the existing assembly halls to accommodate twice the number they used to. It's the same principle they've been using for KH consolidation—why not do the same with AHs?

Then the money grab would be in harmony with everything else they normally do. They are certainly not going to give it back!

There is a kingdom hall which was disbanded some years ago in Bootle, which is not far outside of Liverpool. It was up for sale for years before it was sold. I was in the area recently and went to take a look to see who it had been sold to and was quite surprised to see that The Seventh Day Adventist Church had bought it.

I know of cases here where donations were taken for the WWW... it adds up to millions $ stolen from Australian congregations who were expecting to get KHs built, and that’s just the few I’ve heard of locally.

Mention the fire sale and JWs always reply with “there is massive growth in Africa! They NEED the KH more in Africa ...”

The WTS must have multi-million dollar investment plans for a massive African continent expansion. Given the extent of the recent sales, it could be in excess of 1 billion dollars. The WTS might invest so much money, they will single handedly pull nations out of poverty, feed and clothe entire villages and stem the flow corruption!... or they could pay lawyers vast sums of money to defend the WTS against accusations of child sex abuse.